Educate yourself, read about coins and history. If a coin is meant to be owned by you it will be. Way too many coins to choose from to stress over...
I am with others. I use a fingernail first, and that usually works. If not, a razor blade will do the trick.
Man, I am glad I spend all of my coin time nowadays with ancients. None of this "oh you have to treat them like delicate little bunnies" mentality...
I agree. I have gotten into SE Asian ancients, and of course Hunnic and western Satraps in India, but that is about it. I really haven't gotten...
They had to put a stated value on the piece of metal for it to be a "coin". Collectors seemingly only want coins, not medals or rounds. The mint...
Boy, that picture just makes me incredibly sad. Look at all of the coins getting damaged, and will get further damaged by wear.
I am trying to be able to go through and list which empire at least the coins came from. :) Its sad, about half of my boxes simply say "Byzantine"...
I hear ya, I do the same. I will buy a commoner coin with a slight difference that means something to me. The problem I see with these modern...
If the public "demanded" them, why does every single store dealing with change have a penny jar? No one wants them, the only reason business...
Or, how about saving BILLIONS of dollars in efficiency, and hundreds of millions at the mint, and simply round up transactions? You can still stop...
Will this coin ever end? Good gosh, 106 years of praising a politician who suspended Habeus Corpus, on a denomination that should have been...
Do they still come with the free milk spots?
Well, by definition, if its a fourree its not an official mint issue, (unless its simply a plated mint issue). Therefor, you will never find the...
Very interesting. I as well was misled by the photos. OP, does the coin have the color of a dime or a cent in hand? Are the edges reeded? What is...
I believe he is referring to the pic where it appears there is a trough outlining the head on top. It could just be the lighting, but you would...
Then I would cede to anyone with more knowledge than I. Btw, I would have to agree with you that it appears this got some "help" at the mint....
I will let the real error collectors chime in. It looks real to me, but what I cannot understand is how a cent planchet could get struck in a dime...
Btw, if we are talking about overstrikes, we should acknowledge the fact that they are simply superb for our hobby. There are TONS of information...
I never thought about that. Could it be possible that a coin was subjected to corrosive force in the ground, say from 800-1000AD, then the ground...
@Dougsmit, I believe the correlation of cracks with missing metal on the flan is pretty straightforward. When the coin is struck, there is a...
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